Andy Caddick
Andrew Richard Caddick
Born: 21 November 1968, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Major Teams: Somerset, England.
Known As: Andy Caddick
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Test Debut: England v Australia at Manchester, 1st Test, 1993
Latest Test: England v Australia at Brisbane, 1st Test, 2002/03
ODI Debut: England v Australia at Manchester, Texaco Trophy, 1993
Latest ODI: England v India at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03
First Class Debut: Somerset v West Indians at Taunton, 1991
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2001
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(including 07/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 59 89 11 813 49* 10.42 34.15 0 0 18 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 2146.4 484 6512 220 29.60 7-46 12 0 58.5 3.03
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(including 22/09/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 40 25 10 164 36 10.93 65.60 0 0 8 0
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 366.3 48 1463 48 30.47 4-19 1 0 45.8 3.99
FIRST-CLASS
(1991 - 2002/03; last updated 11/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 199 266 50 3107 92 14.38 0 5 67 0
O R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 7205.4 21699 876 24.77 9-32 60 14 49.3 3.01
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(1990 - 2002/03; last updated 10/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 204 100 38 625 39 10.08 0 0 32 0
O R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 1704 6923 263 26.32 6-30 6 4 38.8 4.06
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, of English parents, Andy Caddick was to
become one of England's finest bowlers of the era. He toured Australia with
New Zealand's Young Cricketers to play in the Youth World Cup (1987-88), and
England (1988). It was after this second trip that he decided to stay in
England, somewhat unimpressed with cricket in his former country. He played
club cricket in London, as well as representing Middlesex Second XI in 1989,
before being lured to Taunton by Somerset. Taking 96 wickets (at an average
of 12), he was the Rapid Cricketline Second XI Player of Year (1991), but
his chances in the first team were limited by the presence of Jimmy Cook, as
Caddick served the four-year period to qualify as an English player.
Caddick's first full season was 1992, and his impact at Taunton was
dramatic: 71 wickets (at 27 apiece) earned him his county cap and a place on
the A tour to Australia. He was clearly the best bowler on the trip, and
when the new season began with 32 wickets in the first three Championship
games, (including an awesome, career best, 9-32 against Lancashire at
Taunton) he was picked for both the one-day and Test squads to play against
Australia.
It was a difficult start. On flat pitches and against a strong Australian
batting line-up Caddick could find little penetration, one incisive spell at
Trent Bridge apart. Dropped later that summer, he played a valuable role on
England's tour of the West Indies that followed, with 6-65 at Port-of-Spain
(as England's winning position was snatched away by being bowled out for 46
in their second innings) and 5-63 at Bridgetown (as England won) being the
personal highlights. His last wicket of the tour was BC Lara - caught
Russell, bowled Caddick 375. He missed much of 1994 and 1995 (though he did
record his highest first-class score to date, 92 against Worcestershire),
first with a shoulder injury, and then with serious shin problems that
threatened his career, before an operation and specially-designed boots
eventually cured the problem. He spent the winter painting and repairing the
boundary boards at Taunton, putting his experience in the family business to
good use.
Caddick won a Test recall in 1996 by taking a further 73 first-class
wickets and a NatWest hat-trick, but after six wickets at Leeds he was
rather surprisingly dropped. The opposition captain, Wasim Akram commented
that Pakistan were "relieved" not to be facing "England's best bowler."
Caddick had a reputation of being somewhat withdrawn and severe, but it was
with disbelief that the Somerset faithful heard reports of his lack of
committment on English trips. He has become a legend at Taunton, where along
with Garner, Botham and Cartwright, he has every right to think of himself
as one of the finest seamers ever to play for the club. Often carrying a
heavy workload, his determination and enthusiasm have been unquestionable.
His desire was publicly questioned by the England coach, David Lloyd, when
he remained out of the Test team in Zimbabwe, before playing a key part in
successive victories in New Zealand.
Caddick began the next summer (1997) as part of the England team, and
took 5-50 as Australia were dismissed for 118 at Edgbaston, giving England a
1-0 series lead. 4-71 followed at Lord's as England held on for a draw, but
just two games later he was out of the side once again, making way for the
left-arm swing of Mike Smith. This time Caddick missed just one game, and
showed his worth with eight wickets at The Oval, including a second innings
5-42 as Australia were bowled out for 104, chasing 124. He was also the
Whyte and Mackay Bowler of the Year.
Dogged by inconsistency on the subsequent West Indies tour, Caddick was
shown little pity by the selectors. Dropped after taking 5-67 as England
levelled the series at Port-of-Spain, he was barely trusted subsequently,
and returned to England in the international wilderness. Working with Pete
Wishart back at Somerset, however, Caddick soon eradicated any faults, and
105 first-class wickets during the 1998 season underlined his stature as a
giant at county level. But despite abundant domestic success he endured a
prolonged period on the outside, being overlooked for the Ashes tour to
Australia.
1999 finally saw Caddick accepted as a Test cricketer, however, as a new
regime of captain and coach (Nasser Hussain and Duncan Fletcher
respectively) offered the chance of rehabilitation. Desperate to make up for
lost time, Caddick repaid their faith with bowling of quality and
consistency to be the almost unique success of the 1999 series against New
Zealand. He followed this by leading the England attack in South Africa,
where he produced Test-best figures of 7-46 on a flat Durban pitch, although
victory eluded his team. Several resolute innings improved his worth
immeasurably. His defiant efforts against New Zealand and South Africa
almost promoted him to the ranks of all-rounder. The summer of 1999 also saw
his emergence as an international class one-day bowler. Caddick played a
leading role as Somerset reached the NatWest final, and it was no surprise
that he was named in the England one-day team, in which he remained a
fixture.
By the summer of 2000, at last accepted as a top international player and
benefiting from increased periods of rest due to the birth of central
contracts (he was awarded a Band A contract), Caddick and Gough combined
with awesome effectiveness against Zimbabwe and the West Indies. Caddick
took 22 wickets against the West Indies (at 19.18) as England took the
series (for the first time at home for 31 years). At Lord's, as the tourists
seemed to be heading for a comfortable victory, he produced a vicious spell
of 5-16 as the West Indies were brushed aside for 54. More fireworks
followed when he took 5-14 at Leeds, including four wickets (three bowled)
in an over, and five wickets in 15 balls.
A high action, following a relatively short run, beginning with a short
skip, bears obvious comparison with Richard Hadlee. Tall, rangy, with long
arms and legs, Caddick is built to bowl. He is capable of moving the ball
both ways, at a sharp pace, though a natural away-swing accounts for many
victims. He uses his height (6'5") to extract menacing bounce. Any batsman
in county cricket asked to name the finest bowler on the circuit inevitably
replies "Caddick". Critics point to his inconsistency, and it is true that
his first innings performances are overshadowed by his second innings
efforts (a wicket every 37.26 in the first innings compared to 19.07 in the
second), but it is hard to draw any conclusions from even such a marked
differential.
A disappointing tour of Pakistan followed, but he bounced back with nine
wickets on the unforgiving tracks of Sri Lanka to help England clinch the
series. Caddick's new ball partnership with Gough was now established as
England's finest for at least a decade and he was rewarded with another
central contract for the 2001 season. He was also made one of Wisden's Five
Cricketers of the Year for 2000.
The summer of 2001 started well for the Caddick/Gough partnership. In the
two Tests against Pakistan each took 14 wickets cheaply. In fact it was
Caddick and Gough v Pakistan, for they took 28 of the 39 wickets that fell
to bowlers. The percentage was almost maintained in the five Ashes Tests,
with Caddick taking 15 of the 49 wickets going to bowlers, and Gough getting
17. Both, however, fell some way below their usual economy rate.
When Gough made himself unavailable for the winter tours that followed,
what had become one of English cricket's more formidable opening bowling
partnerships was broken. Although Caddick was picked in the original squad
to tour India and New Zealand, the terrorist attacks on America of September
11th and subsequent military action in Afghanistan prompted security
concerns amongst several of the players. After the ECB left it to individual
players to make up their minds whether to tour India, Caddick decided not to
do so.
He returned for the one-day international leg of the tour after
Christmas, but could not force his way into the team until the fifth match
of the series as younger men had staked their claim to the new ball in his
absence. Within three overs of his return he took the prized wicket of
Sachin Tendulkar and retained his place for the last match of the series
where he helped England to square the series. His form during the early
stages of the subsequent visit to New Zealand gave serious concern to the
England camp. Savaged in the first one-day international in his home town of
Christchurch, he was dropped and did not reappear until the first-class
cricket began.
Quickly into wicket-taking stride on responsive surfaces, Caddick did
suffer - like all the other England bowlers - when Nathan Astle launched his
astonishing assault in Christchurch, but he had six wickets in the second
innings by then. He had another six-wicket return in Wellington and four of
the first five wickets to fall in Auckland. It remains one of the game's
great mysteries why he did not take another wicket on what should have been
a perfect pitch for his style of bowling, but he had achieved a personal
milestone of some significance by becoming the ninth English bowler to take
200 Test wickets.
Caddick suffered a somewhat disappointing 2002 season in England. Without
his injured partner Darren Gough, he bowled well against Sri Lanka at
Edgbaston after an ordinary performance at Lord's in the first Test. During
the third Test at Old Trafford he suffered a side strain that kept him out
of international cricket until the third Test against India at Headingley in
late August. He did not impress in that match but was getting back to
something like form in the final Test at the Oval. He went to Sri Lanka for
the ICC Champions Trophy tournament but failed to take a wicket and the
selectors must have hoped that he would be right back to his best for the
Ashes tour. (Copyright CricInfo October 2002)
Portrait photograph by David Munden,
Copyright Sportsline Photographic +44 (0)1455 273320,
Thanks to The Cricketer.
Last Updated: Monday, 11-Nov-2002 19:47:21 GMT
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